EP0186593A2 - Tuner for television receiver - Google Patents
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- H04B1/00—Details of transmission systems, not covered by a single one of groups H04B3/00 - H04B13/00; Details of transmission systems not characterised by the medium used for transmission
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- H03J—TUNING RESONANT CIRCUITS; SELECTING RESONANT CIRCUITS
- H03J5/00—Discontinuous tuning; Selecting predetermined frequencies; Selecting frequency bands with or without continuous tuning in one or more of the bands, e.g. push-button tuning, turret tuner
- H03J5/02—Discontinuous tuning; Selecting predetermined frequencies; Selecting frequency bands with or without continuous tuning in one or more of the bands, e.g. push-button tuning, turret tuner with variable tuning element having a number of predetermined settings and adjustable to a desired one of these settings
- H03J5/0245—Discontinuous tuning using an electrical variable impedance element, e.g. a voltage variable reactive diode, in which no corresponding analogue value either exists or is preset, i.e. the tuning information is only available in a digital form
- H03J5/0272—Discontinuous tuning using an electrical variable impedance element, e.g. a voltage variable reactive diode, in which no corresponding analogue value either exists or is preset, i.e. the tuning information is only available in a digital form the digital values being used to preset a counter or a frequency divider in a phase locked loop, e.g. frequency synthesizer
- H03J5/0281—Discontinuous tuning using an electrical variable impedance element, e.g. a voltage variable reactive diode, in which no corresponding analogue value either exists or is preset, i.e. the tuning information is only available in a digital form the digital values being used to preset a counter or a frequency divider in a phase locked loop, e.g. frequency synthesizer the digital values being held in an auxiliary non erasable memory
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- This invention relates generally to a tuner and, more particularly, is directed to a tuner for a television receiver for receiving a plurality of bands, such as VHF band and UHF band.
- a prior art tuner for receiving, for example, VHF and UHF bands is constructed as shown in Fig. 1.
- reference numeral 1 designates a shielding case of a tuner proper.
- This shielding case 1 incorporates therein an electronic tuning tuner circuit section 10.
- Reference numeral 2 designates another shielding case which incorporates therein a PLL system channel selection circuit section 20. That is, the prior art tuner shown in Fig. 1 comprises the electronic tuning tuner circuit section 10 and the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20.
- the electronic tuning tuner circuit section 10 will be described first. Referring to Fig. 1, an input terminal la is provided at one side surface of the shielding case 1 to receive a high frequency (RF) signal from the outside.
- RF high frequency
- the signal supplied to the input terminal la is supplied to a tuning circuit 11V formed by a diode, such as a variable capacitor (vari-cap) diode and the like for forming a VHF tuner.
- This signal is also supplied to a tuning circuit 11U formed similarly by a diode, such as a vari-cap diode and the like for forming a UHF tuner.
- the signal from the tuning circuit 11V is supplied through a high frequency amplifier 12V and a tuning circuit 13V to a mixer 14V in which said signal is mixed with the signal from a local oscillator 15V to provide an intermediate frequency (IF) signal.
- IF intermediate frequency
- the signal from the tuning circuit 11U is supplied through a high frequency amplifier 12U and a tuning circuit 13U to a mixer 14U in which said signal is mixed with the signal from a local oscillator 15U to provide an intermediate frequency (IF) signal.
- the intermediate frequency signal from the mixer 14U is delivered to the output terminal lb via the mixer 14V which, at that time, operates as an amplifier.
- Reference numeral 16 designates a shielding plate.
- Reference numeral 1c designates a power supply terminal, 1d an earth terminal, and 1e, 1f and 1g terminals to which UHF, VHF high and VHF low switching control signals are supplied and which are all aligned on one side surface of the shielding case 1.
- the electronic tuning tuner circuit section 10 is constructed.
- the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 of this tuner will be described.
- the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 is incorporated within the shielding case 2 as earlier noted.
- This PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 is formed of a channel- section IC 21 and a crystal resonator 22 connected to the IC 21.
- the IC 21 is supplied with the detecting signals from the local oscillators 15V and 15U incorporated in the shielding case 1 and the tuning control signal from the IC 21 is supplied to vari-cap diodes and so on of the tuning circuits 11V, 11U, 13V and 13U incorporated in the shielding case 1.
- Reference numeral 2a designates a terminal through which a channel-selection control digital signal from a memory (not shown) or the like is supplied to the IC 21.
- Reference numerals 2b and 2c designate a power supply terminal and an earth terminal, respectively.
- a signal line 2d through which the tuning control voltage is supplied may be formed of a standard or normal wire because the signal passed therethrough is a DC signal.
- a signal line 2e through which the detecting signals from the local oscillators 15V and 15U are supplied to the IC 21 must be formed of a shielding wire because the signal is a high frequency signal. This increases the number of processes in the assembly process of the tuner to a television receiver set and is very disadvantageous in a manufacturing standpoint.
- Fig. 2A is a circuit block diagram showing another example of a prior art tuner.
- like parts corresponding to those of Fig. 1 are marked with the same references and will not be described in detail.
- the shielding case 2 is close to and fixed to the shielding case 1 by soldering or a similar process to thereby remove the signal line 2e, which has to be shielded. Accordingly, if the above-mentioned tuner is manufactured in advance, the assembly process for assembling the tuner into a television receiver set or the like can be made easy.
- the terminals 1c to 1g and the terminals 2a to 2c are provided on different planes of the tuner so that in the assembly process of the tuner to the television receiver set, the work necessary to make the connections to the external terminals becomes complicated.
- a tuner for television receiver comprising:
- the overall arrangement of the tuner can be made small in size and light in weight. Further, in spite of such small-sized and light-weighted arrangement, troubles, such as a mutual interference between the tuner section and the channel selection section can be removed. Furthermore, the number of assembly processes can be reduced and the tuner for television receiver of the present invention can be produced at a low manufacturing cost.
- the channel selection circuit section may use a PLL system but various other systems, such as a preset-volume system and so on may be used. Therefore, the electronic tuning circuit section incorporated in the shielding case had to be formed independently while being compatible with the channel selection circuits. Now, owing to the recent development of the IC for the PLL, it has become possible for the PLL system tuner to tune the high frequency band of CATV that the prior art IC could not channel-select without difficulty.
- the present invention intends to provide an optimum circuit arrangement when an electronic tuning tuner section using a vari-cap diode and the like and a channel selection section of the PLL system are integrally incorporated into a common shielding case so as to be one unit.
- FIG. 3A and 3B An embodiment of a tuner for television receiver according to this invention will hereinafter be described with reference to Figs. 3A and 3B.
- like parts corresponding to those of Fig. 1 and Figs. 2A and 2B are marked with the same references and will not be described in detail.
- Fig. 3A illustrates an overall arrangement of the circuit elements provided within the tuner of the present invention.
- the respective circuit elements 11V to 15V and 11U to 15U which constitute the electronic tuning tuner section 10, as also the IC 21 and the crystal resonator 22 which constitute the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 are incorporated into the common shielding case 1.
- the local oscillators 25V, 15U and the IC 21 are located substantially on the same straight line in a predetermined portion within the shielding case 1.
- the terminals 1c to 1g and 2a to 2c are aligned with one another on one side surface of the shielding case 1.
- a shielding plate 17 is provided in the direction substantially perpendicular to the alignment line of these terminals 1c to 1g and 2a to 2c and is bent in the predetermined portion to surround the PLL channel selection circuit section 20 including the IC 21 and the crystal resonator 22.
- the high frequency input terminal 1a and the intermediate frequency output terminal 1b are located on the side of the electronic tuning tuner section 10 with respect to the connection point of the shielding plate 17 with the shielding case 1. Further, the terminal 2a is located on the side of the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 and the digital signal for channel selection control signal is applied thereto.
- Fig. 3B is a top view illustrating more specifically a practical layout of the circuit elements of the tuner of the present invention shown in Fig.3A.
- the embodiment of the tuner for television receiver according to this invention will be described more fully with reference to Fig. 3B.
- the crystal oscillation element 22 of 4MHz for a reference oscillation element used in the PLL system channel selection section 20 is mounted at the upper right-hand side corner thereof.
- the PLL IC 21 is mounted substantially at the center of the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20.
- a prescaler for frequency-dividing an input signal and a PLL channel selection circuit are integrally formed as one chip IC.
- Other circuit elements 24 are mounted near this IC 21.
- the output from the prescaler is frequency-divided by a predetermined value set by the channel selection control signal and is locked to the reference oscillation signal from the crystal oscillator 22.
- the circuit section 15 V encircled by a dotted line in Fig. 3B is the local oscillator for the VHF band, in which an IC 25 is adapted for such oscillation.
- the intermediate frequency output signal is processed by this IC 25 and then delivered from the output terminal 1b .
- a coil 27 is a resonant inductance for the VHF local oscillator 15V.
- the output therefrom is fed to the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 by the mutual inductance coupling of the coil 27 to the pick-up line 32 that passes near the coil 27.
- Reference numeral 26 designates peripheral circuit elements of the oscillator section 15V which are located around the IC 25.
- the terminals 2a to 2c are each formed as a through type capacitor terminal.
- a broken line portion 15U of the lower right-hand side of the tuner shown in Fig.3B represents a local oscillator for the UHF band.
- This UHF band local oscillator 15U comprises an oscillation transistor 30, peripheral circuit elements 31 and so on.
- the output therefrom is supplied through the pick-up line 32 to the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20.
- the pick-up line 32 may be constituted by a wire covered by polyvinyl chloride.
- the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 and the electronic tuning tuner section 10 are integrally incorporated within the single shielding case 1.
- the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 is surrounded by the partition plate formed of the shielding plate 17, and the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20, the VHF local oscillator 15V and the UHF local oscillator 15U are mounted on a straight line and in this sequential order. Accordingly, these three circuit elements 20, 15V and 15U are soupled with one another very easily.
- the connection of these circuit elements 20, 15V and 15U can be easily made by laying an insulated wire, or the pick-up line 32 between the UHF local oscillator 15U and the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 through the local oscillator 15V as shown in Fig. 3B. Further, according to the above layout of these circuit elements, there occurs no useless space and hence it is possible to make the tuner compact in size.
- the tuner of this invention since the local oscillators 15V and 15U and the IC 21 are mounted substantially on a straight line, it is possible to easily deliver the detecting signal from the local oscillators 15V and 15U by only placing a conductor thereon. In addition, since it is not necessary to lay a long conductor around the circuit elements, there is little fear that troubles, such as mutual interference will occur between the electronic tuning tuner section 10 and the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20.
- the circuit elements of this tuner are integrally mounted and most of the terminals are aligned on one side plane of the shielding case 1, the number of steps in the assembly of the tuner to the television receiver set can be reduced and hence the assembling process becomes easy.
- the location of the high frequency input terminal 1a and of the intermediate frequency output terminal 1b on the side of the electronic tuning tuner section 10 with respect to the shielding plate 17 and the location of the digital signal terminal 2a on the side of the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20 relative to the shielding plate 17, make it possible to reduce more completely the mutual interference between the circuits.
- the overall of the tuner can be made small in size and light in weight. Further, although the tuner of this invention can be made small-sized and light-weight, it is possible to remove troubles, such as a mutual interference between the electronic tuning tuner section 10 and the PLL system channel selection circuit section 20. Besides, the number of steps in the assembling process of the tuner to the television receiver set can be reduced and hence the assembling process becomes easy, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced.
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- This invention relates generally to a tuner and, more particularly, is directed to a tuner for a television receiver for receiving a plurality of bands, such as VHF band and UHF band.
- A prior art tuner for receiving, for example, VHF and UHF bands is constructed as shown in Fig. 1.
- In Fig;1,
reference numeral 1 designates a shielding case of a tuner proper. Thisshielding case 1 incorporates therein an electronic tuningtuner circuit section 10.Reference numeral 2 designates another shielding case which incorporates therein a PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. That is, the prior art tuner shown in Fig. 1 comprises the electronic tuningtuner circuit section 10 and the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. The electronic tuningtuner circuit section 10 will be described first. Referring to Fig. 1, an input terminal la is provided at one side surface of theshielding case 1 to receive a high frequency (RF) signal from the outside. The signal supplied to the input terminal la is supplied to atuning circuit 11V formed by a diode, such as a variable capacitor (vari-cap) diode and the like for forming a VHF tuner. This signal is also supplied to atuning circuit 11U formed similarly by a diode, such as a vari-cap diode and the like for forming a UHF tuner. The signal from thetuning circuit 11V is supplied through ahigh frequency amplifier 12V and atuning circuit 13V to amixer 14V in which said signal is mixed with the signal from alocal oscillator 15V to provide an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The intermediate frequency signal from themixer 14V is delivered to an output terminal lb. - In like manner, the signal from the
tuning circuit 11U is supplied through ahigh frequency amplifier 12U and atuning circuit 13U to amixer 14U in which said signal is mixed with the signal from alocal oscillator 15U to provide an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. The intermediate frequency signal from themixer 14U is delivered to the output terminal lb via themixer 14V which, at that time, operates as an amplifier.Reference numeral 16 designates a shielding plate.Reference numeral 1c designates a power supply terminal, 1d an earth terminal, and 1e, 1f and 1g terminals to which UHF, VHF high and VHF low switching control signals are supplied and which are all aligned on one side surface of theshielding case 1. Thus, the electronic tuningtuner circuit section 10 is constructed. - Subsequently, the PLL system channel
selection circuit section 20 of this tuner will be described. Referring to Fig. 1, the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 is incorporated within theshielding case 2 as earlier noted. This PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 is formed of a channel-section IC 21 and acrystal resonator 22 connected to theIC 21. TheIC 21 is supplied with the detecting signals from thelocal oscillators shielding case 1 and the tuning control signal from theIC 21 is supplied to vari-cap diodes and so on of thetuning circuits shielding case 1.Reference numeral 2a designates a terminal through which a channel-selection control digital signal from a memory (not shown) or the like is supplied to theIC 21.Reference numerals - As described above, the reception and channel selection of the VHF band and the UHF band can be carried out. In this prior art tuner, a
signal line 2d through which the tuning control voltage is supplied may be formed of a standard or normal wire because the signal passed therethrough is a DC signal. On the other hand, asignal line 2e through which the detecting signals from thelocal oscillators IC 21 must be formed of a shielding wire because the signal is a high frequency signal. This increases the number of processes in the assembly process of the tuner to a television receiver set and is very disadvantageous in a manufacturing standpoint. - Fig. 2A is a circuit block diagram showing another example of a prior art tuner. In Fig. 2A, like parts corresponding to those of Fig. 1 are marked with the same references and will not be described in detail. In the prior art tuner shown in Fig. 2A, the
shielding case 2 is close to and fixed to theshielding case 1 by soldering or a similar process to thereby remove thesignal line 2e, which has to be shielded. Accordingly, if the above-mentioned tuner is manufactured in advance, the assembly process for assembling the tuner into a television receiver set or the like can be made easy. In this case, however, theterminals 1c to 1g and theterminals 2a to 2c are provided on different planes of the tuner so that in the assembly process of the tuner to the television receiver set, the work necessary to make the connections to the external terminals becomes complicated. - Therefore, it may be proposed to align the positions of the
terminals 1c to 1g and 2a to 2c in line by making the shape of theshielding case 2 the same as that of theshielding case 1 as shown in Fig.2B. According to this method, however, as will be clear from Fig. 2B, the space factor of the tuner grows worse. - Accordingly, it is an object of this invention to provide a tuner for television receiver the overall arrangement of which can be made small in size and light in weight.
- It is another object of this invention to provide a tuner for television receiver which can remove troubles, such as a mutual interference occurring between a tuning section and a channel selection section in spite of its small-sized and light-weighted overall arrangement thereof.
- It is a further object of this invention to provide a tuner for television receiver in which the number of the assembly processes is reduced and the assembly process is made easy.
- It is a still further object of this invention to provide a tuner for television receiver whose manufacturing cost is reduced.
- It is a yet further object of this invention to provide a tuner for television receiver which is excellent in space factor.
- According to one aspect of the present invention, there is provided a tuner for television receiver comprising:
- a) a common shielding case;
- b) an electronic tuning tuner section having tuning circuits using a vari-cap diode and receiving a desired frequency by switching a plurality of receiving bands;
- c) a PLL (phase locked loop) system channel selection circuit section for supplying a predetermined tuning voltage to said tuning circuits, said electronic tuning tuner section and said PLL system channel selection circuit section both being incorporated in said common shielding case, said electronic tuning tuner section having a plurality of local oscillator circuits corresponding to different receiving bands, said electronic tuning tuner section, said plurality of local oscillator circuits and said PLL system channel selection circuit section being located within said common shielding case in a predetermined end portion thereof and substantially on one straight line;
- d) external connection terminals being aligned on one side surface of said shielding case for setting said electronic tuning tuner section and said PLL system channel selection circuit section in a desired condition;
- e) a shielding plate being mounted within said common shielding case in the direction substantially perpendicular to the alignment direction of said external connection terminals and being bent in said predetermined portion so as to surround said PLL system channel selection circuit section;
- f) a high frequency input terminal and an intermediate frequency output terminal located on the side of said electronic tuning tuner section with respect to the connection point of the shielding plate to said common shielding case; and
- g) a terminal for a channel selection control digital signal located on the side of said PLL system channel selection circuit section with respect to said connection point.
- In accordance with the tuner for television receiver according to the present invention, the overall arrangement of the tuner can be made small in size and light in weight. Further, in spite of such small-sized and light-weighted arrangement, troubles, such as a mutual interference between the tuner section and the channel selection section can be removed. Furthermore, the number of assembly processes can be reduced and the tuner for television receiver of the present invention can be produced at a low manufacturing cost.
- These and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become apparent from the following detailed description of the preferred embodiment taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, throughout which like reference numerals designate like elements and parts.
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- Fig. 1 and Figs. 2A and 2B are respectively circuit block diagrams showing examples of prior art tuners for television receivers;
- Fig. 3A is a circuit block diagram showing an embodiment of a tuner for television receiver according to the present invention; and
- Fig. 3B is a top view illustrating a practical circuit arrangement of the tuner for television receiver of Fig. 3A.
- In the prior art tuners, the channel selection circuit section may use a PLL system but various other systems, such as a preset-volume system and so on may be used. Therefore, the electronic tuning circuit section incorporated in the shielding case had to be formed independently while being compatible with the channel selection circuits. Now, owing to the recent development of the IC for the PLL, it has become possible for the PLL system tuner to tune the high frequency band of CATV that the prior art IC could not channel-select without difficulty.
- Therefore, the present invention intends to provide an optimum circuit arrangement when an electronic tuning tuner section using a vari-cap diode and the like and a channel selection section of the PLL system are integrally incorporated into a common shielding case so as to be one unit.
- An embodiment of a tuner for television receiver according to this invention will hereinafter be described with reference to Figs. 3A and 3B. In Figs. 3A and 3B, like parts corresponding to those of Fig. 1 and Figs. 2A and 2B are marked with the same references and will not be described in detail.
- Fig. 3A illustrates an overall arrangement of the circuit elements provided within the tuner of the present invention.
- Referring to Fig. 3A, the
respective circuit elements 11V to 15V and 11U to 15U which constitute the electronictuning tuner section 10, as also theIC 21 and thecrystal resonator 22 which constitute the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 are incorporated into thecommon shielding case 1. In this case, as shown in Fig. 3A, thelocal oscillators 25V, 15U and theIC 21 are located substantially on the same straight line in a predetermined portion within the shieldingcase 1. Further, theterminals 1c to 1g and 2a to 2c are aligned with one another on one side surface of the shieldingcase 1. A shieldingplate 17 is provided in the direction substantially perpendicular to the alignment line of theseterminals 1c to 1g and 2a to 2c and is bent in the predetermined portion to surround the PLL channelselection circuit section 20 including theIC 21 and thecrystal resonator 22. The highfrequency input terminal 1a and the intermediatefrequency output terminal 1b are located on the side of the electronictuning tuner section 10 with respect to the connection point of the shieldingplate 17 with the shieldingcase 1. Further, theterminal 2a is located on the side of the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 and the digital signal for channel selection control signal is applied thereto. - Fig. 3B is a top view illustrating more specifically a practical layout of the circuit elements of the tuner of the present invention shown in Fig.3A. The embodiment of the tuner for television receiver according to this invention will be described more fully with reference to Fig. 3B. Referring to Fig. 3B, the
crystal oscillation element 22 of 4MHz for a reference oscillation element used in the PLL systemchannel selection section 20 is mounted at the upper right-hand side corner thereof. ThePLL IC 21 is mounted substantially at the center of the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. In theIC 21, a prescaler for frequency-dividing an input signal and a PLL channel selection circuit are integrally formed as one chip IC.Other circuit elements 24 are mounted near thisIC 21. In the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20, the output from the prescaler is frequency-divided by a predetermined value set by the channel selection control signal and is locked to the reference oscillation signal from thecrystal oscillator 22. - The circuit section 15V encircled by a dotted line in Fig. 3B is the local oscillator for the VHF band, in which an
IC 25 is adapted for such oscillation. The intermediate frequency output signal is processed by thisIC 25 and then delivered from the output terminal 1b. Acoil 27 is a resonant inductance for the VHFlocal oscillator 15V. The output therefrom is fed to the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 by the mutual inductance coupling of thecoil 27 to the pick-upline 32 that passes near thecoil 27.Reference numeral 26 designates peripheral circuit elements of theoscillator section 15V which are located around theIC 25. Theterminals 2a to 2c are each formed as a through type capacitor terminal. - A
broken line portion 15U of the lower right-hand side of the tuner shown in Fig.3B represents a local oscillator for the UHF band. This UHF bandlocal oscillator 15U comprises anoscillation transistor 30,peripheral circuit elements 31 and so on. The output therefrom is supplied through the pick-upline 32 to the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. The pick-upline 32 may be constituted by a wire covered by polyvinyl chloride. - In the present invention as described above, the PLL system channel
selection circuit section 20 and the electronictuning tuner section 10 are integrally incorporated within thesingle shielding case 1. In addition, the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 is surrounded by the partition plate formed of the shieldingplate 17, and the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20, the VHFlocal oscillator 15V and the UHFlocal oscillator 15U are mounted on a straight line and in this sequential order. Accordingly, these threecircuit elements circuit elements line 32 between the UHFlocal oscillator 15U and the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 through thelocal oscillator 15V as shown in Fig. 3B. Further, according to the above layout of these circuit elements, there occurs no useless space and hence it is possible to make the tuner compact in size. - Furthermore, according to the tuner of this invention, since the
local oscillators IC 21 are mounted substantially on a straight line, it is possible to easily deliver the detecting signal from thelocal oscillators tuning tuner section 10 and the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. - Further, since the circuit elements of this tuner are integrally mounted and most of the terminals are aligned on one side plane of the shielding
case 1, the number of steps in the assembly of the tuner to the television receiver set can be reduced and hence the assembling process becomes easy. - Furthermore, due to the provision of a
specific shielding plate 17, the location of the highfrequency input terminal 1a and of the intermediatefrequency output terminal 1b on the side of the electronictuning tuner section 10 with respect to the shieldingplate 17 and the location of thedigital signal terminal 2a on the side of the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20 relative to the shieldingplate 17, make it possible to reduce more completely the mutual interference between the circuits. - According to the present invention as set forth above, the overall of the tuner can be made small in size and light in weight. Further, although the tuner of this invention can be made small-sized and light-weight, it is possible to remove troubles, such as a mutual interference between the electronic
tuning tuner section 10 and the PLL system channelselection circuit section 20. Besides, the number of steps in the assembling process of the tuner to the television receiver set can be reduced and hence the assembling process becomes easy, so that the manufacturing cost is reduced. - The above description is given on a single preferred embodiment of the invention but it will be apparent that many modifications and variations could be effected by one skilled in the art without departing from the spirits or scope of the novel concepts of the invention so that the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims only.
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